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To: Dale Baker who wrote (37867)	5/25/2007 4:42:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 542068

Dale - Thanks for posting that. Good stuff. While reading through it, something occurred to me. Bush says that we have to fight terrorists in Iraq or they will follow us home and we'll have to fight them here. Aside from all the other flaws in that argument that have already been pointed out, I thought of another one. The fact that we have troops in Iraq doesn't in any way prevent terrorists from coming here and attacking us right now. Bin Laden isn't somehow forced to send all his minions to Iraq just because we have an army there. The attacks of 9/11 were pulled off by fewer than fifty people worldwide, most likely, and only twenty in the U.S. The next plan could be well under way right now. I don't think all our soldiers in Iraq can effectively deal with a couple of dozen fanatics who are already spread among our own population. So who can deal with them? The obvious answer is that terrorism is primarily a law enforcement problem, to be dealt with by the FBI, CIA, and local law enforcement agencies. - Allen

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